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While we prepare for Christmas in the U.S., Winnie Mandela, one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and an international symbol of courage and defiance of the racist South African regime, has been arrested. She is the wife of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and has been in the forefront of the struggle for freedom and national liberation in South Africa for over a quarter of a century. The leaflet discusses Louis LeGrange, Minister of Law and Order in South Africa. The leaflet calls on the South African government to free Winnie Mandela and Nelson Mandela and all South African political prisoners, have no more bannings or jailings, lift the State of Emergency, and dismantle apartheid and give the Black majority full political, social, and economic rights. It also calls on the U.S. government to implement a total economic boycott of South Africa and on the City of Seattle and the State of Washington to divest of stocks and bonds of corporations doing business in South Africa. The leaflet asks people to write President Reagan, Senator Slade Gorton, and Senator Dan Evans and demand a total boycott of South Africa until apartheid is dismantled. It also asks people to write the Seattle Pension Fund Board and demand complete divestment. The leaflet invites people to join the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid weekly Sunday picket at the home of honorary South African Consul Joseph Swing.

African Activist Archive

Black Christmas in South Africa! Winnie Mandela Arrested!

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